1:24 AM,
Dec. 30, 2012

Workers install panels holding Waterford Crystal triangles onto the Times Square New Year's Eve ball on Thursday in New York. For this New Year's Eve ball, 288 new triangles, which are lighted from behind, were installed.

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If you've got to get to the Big Apple to see the big ball drop, the region's transit agencies will offer extra service to get you to and from the party.

If you're driving to the party, State Police and highway safety officials remind you that added patrols will be operating to deter and catch drunken drivers.

New Jersey law enforcement agencies are participating in the larger national "Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over" DWI enforcement campaign, coordinated by the state Division of Highway Traffic Safety. The program places additional troopers and officers on the roads looking for intoxicated ...